Women’s Tennis: Santa Barbara Splits Down South
The UCSB women’s tennis team split in a pair of Big West road matches last weekend by dropping a tight 4-3 match at #71 Long Beach State before cruising to a 6-1 victory over Riverside at the RecCen Courts on Senior Day.
County Secessionists Enlist 2,000 in 6 Days
A release from Citizens for County Organization (CFCO), the group heading the effort to create the proposed Mission County, stated that in the first six days of signature-gathering, over 2,000 residents of the northern parts of the county lent their names to the cause.
You Can’t Say That on Music Television
As if its rejection of all actual music in favor of fresh-faced, Generation Y-aimed reality programming weren’t proof enough that the execs at MTV sniff glue, MTV has decided to lighten the international gloom of waging war by excising all images of war from its European broadcasts.
A.S. Puts Parking Fee on Ballot
If passed, the lock-in will charge undergraduates $3.33 per quarter per student beginning Fall 2003. The fee will be raised to $4.00 per quarter per student in 2005 to account for inflation.
Column About Fedayeen Fighters Makes Heroes out of Monsters
I am responding to Edward M. Gorenshteyn’s letter titled “Fedayeen Fight for Freedom, Not Hussein” (Daily Nexus, April 4, 2003). As a former student of UCSB, it is very disappointing to read the uninformed opinions of Gorenshteyn.
Bill Seeks to Increase Water Cleanup Funds
The Drinking Water Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara), would allow Congress to spend $200 million per year to clean Central Coast water supplies contaminated by the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE).
Stop the Petty Name Calling; It’s Time for Some Serious Discussion
I am writing this letter in response to Todd Roberson’s recent editorial “A Lesson for the Liberals” (Daily Nexus, April 3, 2003). Foremost, I would like to expound upon several significant points Roberson made in his finely written, thought-provoking analysis.
UC Lawsuit Aims to Hold AOL Time Warner Accountable
The University of California announced it is going to sue AOL Time Warner. The UC claims accounting problems at the company led to plummeting stock prices and nearly a half billion dollars in lost University investments.
Marine Gets Citizenship After Death
When Filipino-born Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa, 33, died for the United States during combat in Iraq on March 27, he was not a U.S. citizen. By the time he is buried in Tracy, Calif., later this week, he will have become an American.
Author Brings ‘A Problem From Hell’ To University
Power is speaking as part of the “Global Forces in the Post-Cold War World” lecture series sponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Global and International Studies Program and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.